Friday, May 30, 2014

Sometimes when you try to install a game or program on Wine you will be surprised that it does not work, an error message appears on the wording of "the game is not properly installed" or something like that , and in this case it means that there is a Registry file missing must be installed to operate the game \ program.

1 . , First and foremost, look for the error message in Google and download the appropriate Registry file that solves the problem.

2 . Open Terminal by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T.

3 . , Type the following command , followed by the path and Registry file name ( or drag and drop the Registry file to Terminal after typing the command ) :

wine regeditpath to file

* As you can see above, the Red command is for installation Registry files, while the blue one is the path and file name that you can drag and drop to a terminal window, and then press Enter.

Monday, May 26, 2014

China is the most country in the world that use Windows XP, the government has appeared on TV channels Chinese media, calling users to move to Linux .

Windows XP Was stopped from Microsoft supports in April 8, 2014 , and this means that people who use it are still at risk due to suspension updates, which will lead to major security problems .

China took this matter very seriously, and felt that the computers that are powered by XP become more vulnerable over time, therefore, has issued the following statement :

We want to draw the attention of users to the potential security risks that may be exposed to Windows XP, where it was interrupted by Microsoft to provide updates and `` patches'' to it, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is working to develop a computer system especially for China based on Linux, and I hope users give us further support for this product which is locally produced .

* Zhang Feng, chief engineer at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, according to a report issued by the ecns.cn.

Zhang Fen says that approximately 70% of the computers in China are running Windows XP, including the authorities and local governments .

The experts on China Central Television , expressed concern about those security concerns, but they also made ​​it clear that they believe that Linux may not be ready to receive the new users .

Hu Changjun representative of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Says " that Linux is only 1 % of the market , it is natural that companies do not want to develop software that adapts to this environment ."

But despite of that, we find many countries have succeeded in switching to Linux , such as Russia and Germany .

One of the main problems in China, the fact is that they do not have a major Linux distribution for the adoption of a uniform system, however , Ubuntu Kylin the Chinese distribution is a good first start, has proven itself more in the coming months .

After the Mini PINGUY OS 14.04 version was revealed about two weeks ago, now comes Full distribution edition, a beautiful distro based on Ubuntu brings many of the useful customizations to the final user and applications.

Pinguy OS interface uses GNOME Shell 3.10 by default, which is customized by many additions such as : Gno-Menu, Media Player Indicator, Top Icons and other ...

Each distribution contains a large amount of applications , making it a convenient option for those who do not like to spend the time to install applications or customization.

What are the main changes in PINGUY OS 14.04 LTS?

- Neflix is installed .
- Add several useful scripts that allow you to run torrent files in Firefox and view videos by VLC.
- Enable TRIM system which speed up SSD.
- Liquid Prompt is been used as terminal in GNOME .
- Scripts Have been added for the ability to backup to data and It is based on TestDisk.

In addition, many software and other useful additions such as the TLP program , which provides power , and accelerate the take-off applications and synchronize Profile , program and Plex Media Center , which replaced the XBMC.

GNOME Shell customizations

We mentioned that Pinguy OS uses version 3.10 of the GNOMEShell , and also bar the Docky It is used as a bar functions \ absolute applications , and there is also a bar on the left disappears automatically, which allows quick access to your folders .

For a list of the Supreme , they are used add Gno-menu, and the distribution interface designed to be simple and intuitive and tidy ; angles as hot ( or shiny ) disabled by default , but you can activate them.

Pinguy OS uses a lot of add-ons that facilitate your work with the interface, and uses the Zukitwo theme with Faience Azur Icons and Faience feature limits and window frames , and Zukitwo-Light feature layer shell, in addition to many of the features installed by default , that can be changed.

Some snapshots :

Sunday, May 18, 2014

ATOM TEXT is a nicetext editor, open-source developed by GitHub, which is currently in beta , Atom is based on the web techniques, and you can customize it easily and add new features to it, either by CSS or HTML and JavaScript ; It is smooth that allow you to use the APIs without the complexity .

# Other advantages :

- Browser for the system disk .
- Fast Explorer to open files quickly .
- The user interface is clean and beautiful.
- Indicators, and options
- Supports importing grammatical rules for TextMate and features.
- Along with more advantages .

In this tutorial, we will explain how to converse from Ubuntu14.04 look to Mac format by installing MacBuntu, note that this explanation applies only to Ubuntu14.04 , and for the other versions search the web.

On the Macintosh system , there is an app called Spotlight, which enables users to search rapidly and immediately all things on the computer ; On the Linux system there is a great alternative called Synapse.

To install Synapse Open terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and paste the following commands :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: noobslab / appssudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install indicator-synapse
* Note: After that you need to log out of the computer, then the application will work.

7 . Replacement of the word Ubuntu Desktop to Mac OS X word in the top bar

Friday, May 16, 2014

Flarigat is the best graphical application to download in Linux system , which integrates with all known browsers such as Firefox , Chrome \ Chromium , Opera , etc ... ; Today has reached version 3.1 of this application coming with many useful changes .

# Highlighted updates

- Improved multi- threaded core engine (which is a moving specialist downloading ) .
- Support for Google Drive and Dropbox , and other similar websites .
- Improved integration with web browsers .
- Add YouTube to improve the application ( to download videos ) and is built with the software now .
- Fix the problem of deformation caused by the graphical interface to change the language.
- Drop pcap, winpcap from the dependencies.
- Support for download the latest applications.
- Along with more fixes and other minor improvements.

The Mozilla company posted a video on its channel in YouTube, on the wording of a disapprobation message with respect saying that companies must respect the privacy and user information, and that the companies are not permitted to trade with these particulars and information and have no right to do so.

This video has been released under the title "Web we want"; Mozilla says that it is the only company of its kind that stands in the ranks of users, because it respects the privacy of people, this is not a stranger to it.

LXQt is relatively a new desktop environment written with Qt libraries, It was formerly called Razor-Qt but it merged with the project LXDEQt and changed its name, It aims to provide a fast desktop environment, light and written with Qt library to be a good alternative for KDE on devices that are not possess Specifications strong .

Nowadays the version 0.7 was released, I downloaded it for testing it on Ubuntu14.04 and it has worked smoothly , when you enter into the environment for the first time, it will ask for the window manager you want to use, as it allows you to use any window manager you want like Kwin or Xfwm4 or others.

LXQt is featured by its beauty and simplicity at the same time, the default desktop is very simple and customizable Qt aesthetics, as it is there are some custom attributes to the default environment you can use to get a perfect beauty :

Talking about the consumption of resources, it consumes 360 megabytes of random access memory (RAM) currently, not bad if you compare it with other desktop environments as Kde or Gnome Shell, for example:

This environment comes a set of tools that are available to be customized, such as a tool to change the location of the emergence of notices, change the background, modify the settings of the panel and the possibility of changing its place, change the appearance and icons feature is used, change the mouse cursor, modify default applications, changing the window manager .. and many others :

LXQt also comes with a file browser PCmanFM but this time written in Qt :

And a lot of other features .. its future seems promising, especially as it made ​​all these features and is still in version 0.7 demo, and how the final version will become ? :)

You can download the source through this link, or download it from this link for Arch Linux users, or here for OpenSUSE, Ubuntu users can apply the following commands to install it :

Note : The interface is still experimental, you may encounter several problems, and may not work with you.

Monday, May 5, 2014

Mozilla released version 29 of famous browser, Firefox, and with significant changes, most notably the new interface and I totally enjoyed the simplicity and beauty, as well the support of synchronization through a special account , instead of the other changes.

The first thing you will notice in Firefox 29 is the new interface called Australis UI and as you can see they use tabs with the edges of the circular curved and the change in the overall design of the bar icons and locations, and a new list for the allocation of symbols and icons on the tape that allows you to arrange your browser and customize it however you like.

The addition bar "addon bar" also has been removed ( and transferred its contents to the navigation bar), and were integrated favorite icon with button labels you have stored and transported to the right of the search bar , in addition to the button " move forward " disappears automatically when it is not needed .

This has added the ability to synchronize Firefox , bookmarks , and history , passwords.. easily , using a special account ( such as Chrome \ Chromium ) by creating Firefox account, instead of internal improvements in many other browser.

# Download

- For Ubuntu users 12.04 \ 12.10 \ 13.10 \ 14.04 , all you have to do is to update the system via the " Software Updater" which will automatically upgrade to the new version of Firefox29 .

- For other distributions like Fedora , and Arch Linux , etc. ... it often has reached the update also via " Software Updater " if the updates didn't come, it will inevitably be in a matter of days or a few hours..